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After Annie

Autor Anna Quindlen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 feb 2024

Provenind din limba engleză, traducerea acestui roman ne aduce în față o proză de o onestitate tăioasă, care reușește să păstreze intactă acea căldură specifică vocii Anna Quindlen. Reținem că After Annie nu este doar o cronică a doliului, ci o explorare a spațiului gol pe care un singur om îl lasă într-o întreagă comunitate afectivă. Premisa este pe cât de simplă, pe atât de devastatoare: Annie Brown moare subit, iar echilibrul fragil al celor apropiați — soțul Bill, prietena Annemarie și cei patru copii — se prăbușește. Ne impresionează în mod deosebit figura lui Ali, fiica forțată să devină pilonul de susținere al casei, o oglindă a responsabilităților premature. Structurat pe durata unui an, romanul evită accentele melodramatice în favoarea unei observații fine a modului în care absența devine prezență prin amintire. Observăm aici forța narativă a lui Juliet Ann Conlin în Love, Hope, unde pierderea reconfigurează destine, combinată cu sensibilitatea lui Ethan Joella, dar cu un glas propriu, mai ancorat în realismul domestic. Anna Quindlen revine la temele care au consacrat-o în One True Thing sau Rise and Shine — familia ca nucleu de reziliență și sacrificiul feminin — însă aici tonul este mai contemplativ, mai așezat. Nu este o lectură despre sfârșituri, ci despre capacitatea uluitoare a spiritului uman de a învăța să iubească din nou, chiar și printre ruinele unei pierderi ireparabile.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593861844
ISBN-10: 0593861841
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Diversified Publishing LLC

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută în beletristică o oglindă a vieții reale, cu toate imperfecțiunile și speranțele ei. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care doliul poate deveni un catalizator pentru maturizare și solidaritate. Este un roman esențial pentru fanii literaturii contemporane psihologice, oferind o lecție discretă despre cum să mergi mai departe fără a uita ce ai pierdut.


Despre autor

Anna Quindlen este o figură proeminentă a peisajului cultural american, fiind romancieră, jurnalistă și eseistă de succes. Cariera sa a atins un punct de referință în 1992, când a fost onorată cu Premiul Pulitzer pentru rubrica sa „Public and Private” din New York Times. Talentul său de a sonda complexitatea relațiilor de familie a fost recunoscut internațional odată cu ecranizarea romanului său semi-autobiografic One True Thing, cu Meryl Streep în rolul principal. În After Annie, Quindlen își folosește experiența de fin observator al vieții moderne pentru a construi un portret emoționant al supraviețuirii emoționale.


Descriere scurtă

‘Candid and complex ­– and ultimately quite hopeful’ Claire Lombardo
‘Beautiful and deeply moving’ J. Courtney Sullivan
‘A story of abiding hope’ Mary Beth Keane
 
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centred their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie’s best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie’s support. It is Annie’s daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all, and who confronts the complicated truths of adulthood.
 
Yet over the course of the next year, while Annie looms large in their memories, all three are able to grow, to change, even to become stronger and more sure of themselves. The enduring power Annie gave to those who loved her is the power to love, and to go on without her.
 
Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant voice, and with her deep and generous understanding of people, After Annie is a story that ends with hope, a beautiful novel about how adversity can change us in profound ways.

‘[A] quietly revelatory and gently gleaming gem of a book.’— New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Praise for Anna Quindlen

‘Leaves the reader feeling grateful, wide awake, lucky to be alive’ Michael Chabon
‘Simply impossible to forget’ Alice Hoffman
‘Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart’ Elizabeth Jane Howard
‘Breathtaking... Quindlen writes superbly about families, grief and betrayal. I was completely mesmerised’ Lisa Jewell
‘Engaging, immaculately constructed storytelling’ Guardian
‘One of our most astute chroniclers of modern life’ New York Times Book Review
‘Brave and beautiful’ The Times
‘Her storytelling is exemplary’ Sunday Telegraph
‘With relentless and dazzling brilliance, Quindlen grapples with the lancing pain and the swirls of disorientation experienced by anyone who has loved and lost’ Daily Mail
‘A wise, closely observed, achingly eloquent book’ Huffington Post
‘Overwhelmingly moving’ New York Times

Recenzii

After Annie is Anna Quindlen’s new wise and heartfelt novel of connection, of loss and love and the power of both. It celebrates the friends and family we have, mourns our great and small losses, and helps us find the unexpected light in the dark places we all have’ Amy Bloom, author of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

‘A new Anna Quindlen novel is always cause for celebration. After Annie might just be my favourite one yet. It’s a beautiful and deeply moving story about love, loss, friendship, marriage, family and community from one of our wisest chroniclers of modern life. I treasured every page’ J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and Strangers

After Annie is a novel about loss – and yet its pages are full of life and heart. With her deft interiority and spot-on depiction of the small moments that bring characters to life, Anna Quindlen tells a family story that’s at once candid and complex – and ultimately quite hopeful’ Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

‘The characters in After Annie are flawed, just as each of us is flawed, and as they fumble through their grief, as they make mistakes, their lives feel so authentically lived-in that I’d swear I’ve known them my whole life. And how I rooted for them! In Anna Quindlen’s hands, a story about the greatest of losses becomes a story of abiding hope above all. I predict this will be one of the best novels of the year’ Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes

‘A master of exploring human frailty and resilience in the face of domestic tragedy, best-selling Quindlen plumbs the depths of Annie’s survivors’ individual and collective grief in scenes that are both subtle and sharp. Exquisite in its sensitivity, breathtaking in its compassion, Quindlen’s exploration of loss and renewal will provoke both weeping and wonder’ Booklist 

‘A quietly revelatory and gently gleaming gem of a book… The very best thing about this book might be the way Quindlen, an anthropologist of domesticity, catalogues the sparklingly random moments that make up human experience’ New York Times Book Review

‘Luminous with life, hope and the power of love’ People Magazine

'The lesson Quindlen offers is universal and incontrovertible: love and memories are powerful antidotes to grief... Another acute portrait of family life from a virtuoso of the form' Publishers Weekly

Praise for Anna Quindlen

‘Leaves the reader feeling grateful, wide awake, lucky to be alive’ Michael Chabon

‘Simply impossible to forget’ Alice Hoffman

‘Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart’ Elizabeth Jane Howard

‘Breathtaking... Quindlen writes superbly about families, grief and betrayal. I was completely mesmerised’ Lisa Jewell

‘Engaging, immaculately constructed storytelling’ Guardian

‘One of our most astute chroniclers of modern life’ New York Times Book Review

‘Brave and beautiful’ The Times

‘Her storytelling is exemplary’ Sunday Telegraph

‘With relentless and dazzling brilliance, Quindlen grapples with the lancing pain and the swirls of disorientation experienced by anyone who has loved and lost’ Daily Mail

‘A wise, closely observed, achingly eloquent book’ Huffington Post

‘Overwhelmingly moving’ New York Times

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For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler comes a brilliant and poignant novel from the Richard and Judy Book Club and Number One bestselling author Anna Quindlen